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McGill University

Department

Elementary Education

Course

EDEE 280

Professor

Paul Zanazanian

Semester

Winter

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EDEE 280 – Geography, History and Citizenship Education – Paul Zanazanian Winter 2013
Class 20: Quebec’s Dark Years: Maurice Duplessis and his Dark Era
 background context: Canada in the 1930s-1940s
o the Great Depression (1929)
 causes
 stock market crash
 uncontrolled capitalism laissez faire economy
 government came with social programs to help
 possible solutions
 state should play a role & intervene
o state should invest
o state should lower taxes
o state should
 consequences
 imports dropped by 55%
 incomes dropped 50%
 exports dropped
 out of 10 million Canadians, 2 million living on relief hand outs  ¼
Canadians unemployed
 government realized they needed to be more active in the economy
 government investment didn’t end the great depression, WWII did 
created industry for goods & services needed for war
o World War II (1939-1945)
 cause: fascism  form of nationalism pushed to an extreme; totalitarianism form;
nation comes first
 Hitler eventually rose to power democratically & felt they were humiliated by WWI
& that Germany wasn’t at fault so didn’t want them to pay a high price
 wanted Germany to restore its glory & rule the world
 feeded into ongoing anti-Semitism
 used the Jewish to get power and then started persecuting them once he
had the power
 two groups: allies (Britain, France, USA, USSR, Australia, Belgium) & axis powers
(Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania)
 rise of Duplessis in Quebec
o Taschereau Liberals
 wanted to invest in jobs & build economy up
 started offering income support payments in 1932 to people who needed it 
always conditions attached & didn’t come in at regular intervals; could only be